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My confidence was not misplaced. By the time the next evening arrived, Meridian had lights.There are accomplishments which announce themselves with considerable ceremony and others which consist of turning a switch and discovering that something happens. The latter are generally more useful. I had spent enough of my life in the company of computers to…
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Electricity was not, unfortunately, the only system requiring attention that day. While Don occupied himself with the comparatively straightforward problem of persuading electrons to travel where intended, I had undertaken the more difficult business of persuading the State of California that I wished to answer a lawsuit.This desire, which might appear sufficiently communicated by the…
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There are circumstances which require a history and others which merely invite one, and I have become increasingly suspicious of the latter. A life, examined with sufficient determination, will furnish reasons for nearly anything; and there is no calamity so complete that its victim cannot improve upon it by supplying several chapters of explanation.The necessary…
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It would perhaps be tempting to suppose that Don’s arrival upon that intolerably hot September morning was merely one of those coincidences to which we assign no significance except when subsequent events have furnished them with one; but such an interpretation would neglect both the nature of his attachment to the undertaking and that curious…
